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 Abandoned as a baby and raised in a children’s home, Susan’s
ambition to fly seems like an impossible dream. Having worked as a maid for the
irascible, autocratic Jane Kemp since she was fourteen there seems little likelihood
of her lot improving, and now London is being torn apart by the Blitz. When Susan
rescues an eight-week-old Labrador puppy from almost certain death she little realises
that her life will change forever.
A chance meeting with a young pilot, Tony Richards, gives her hope for the future,
and when circumstances force her from the Kemps’ house she finds sanctuary with
Tony’s widowed father, Dave, in a tiny flat above his cycle shop. But matters become
complicated when Dave proposes marriage, and Susan decides that it is time to leave.
She takes Charlie and travels to Hampshire hoping to find work at the aerodrome
where Tony is an instructor teaching civilian pilots to fly in the Air Transport
Auxiliary.
Alone and virtually penniless, Susan is desperate for somewhere to stay when Charlie
chases a cat over a wall into a pub garden. The landlord’s daughter, Roz, takes
pity on them both and Susan enters a new phase in her life when anything seems possible,
including her most cherished ambition to fly and to find love and a family of her
own.
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